LONG POND — Matt Kenseth stretched his fuel and zipped past the fading leaders in the final thrilling laps Sunday to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway. The 400-mile race came down to fuel and which cars had it — and which ones didn’t. Joey
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She is safe and he is in jail. The Amber Alert is over.
Police found Jenea Patterson, the 16-year-old Wilkes-Barre girl who was kidnapped at gunpoint in front of her home late Thursday night, unharmed early Saturday morning in the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital parking garage.
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Scrantonians are no strangers to predators from on high. The coal barons and their dense descendants have exploited city residents from every conceivable angle and are always seeking new veins to mine.
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Wilkes-Barre police charged a Scranton man with drug possession after they say they found him in a catatonic state from the effects of Spice, a synthetic drug, on a city street Saturday morning.
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Joe Gatelli is the kind of guy who keeps six portable weather radios in various spots of his house, loves nothing more than checking out radar patterns on his nifty iPad app, and who once won a trivia contest hosted by the public television show “Weather World.”
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Wayne County is revving up for its 153rd fair. After bringing in more than 103,000 people in 2014, an increase from approximately 90,000 in 2013, the fair aims to continue its growth this year.
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CLARKS GREEN — Comfy, colorful bean-bag chairs placed next to tables of different shapes and sizes holding iPads and laptops replace traditional classroom desks and books at a new supplemental learning center in the Abingtons.
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Sunday Times readers were shocked to learn that Roaring Brook Twp. officials looked the other way as an illegal trucking business operated upstream from Lake Scranton, the water supply for 160,000 people.
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